ORESTEIA RETURNS TO LOS ANGELES    

Thursday, December 6, 2012 

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CALLING ALL FILMMAKERS: 2013 FILM SUBMISSIONS NOW OPEN
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The 7th Annual Los Angeles Greek Film Festival is set to take place June 6-9, 2013, in Los Angeles.  LAGFF showcases new films from Greek
filmmakers worldwide. Our foremost goal is to promote Greek Cinema and cultural exchange while bridging the gap between Greek filmmakers and Hollywood. Orpheus Awards are given to the most outstanding new films in the dramatic, documentary and short film categories. 

LAGFF accepts films by Greek filmmakers from Greece, Cyprus and the
world; films about Greece or with a prevalent Greek theme; and films
with an important contributor of Greek descent (writer, producer, lead
actor).  To submit your film, please click here.


AESCHYLUS' ORESTEIA, DECEMBER 7-9 IN LOS ANGELES 
Due to popular demand, the Hellenic Library will once again present Aeschylus' ORESTEIA, the trilogy, directed and translated in English by Lucas Thanos.
The performance will take place on the following dates at The Hudson Theaters:

Friday, Dec 7, 2012 at 8:00pm
Saturday, Dec 8, 2012 at 8:00pm 
Sunday, Dec 9, 2012 at 3:00pm
 
 "The Hudson Theaters" 6539 Santa Monica Blvd LA, CA 90038
(323) 856-4249 | www.hudsontheatre.com
 
General Admission - $30.00| *Performances on October 28th were sold out. Don't miss the chance to attend this unique performance!
 
OPTIONS FOR TICKETS - FIRST OPTION
For direct purchase of tickets call 323-960-5521

SECOND OPTION
For reservations call:  (562) 869-5582 or (310) 735-7882
To get your tickets write a check to "Hellenic Library" and mail it to:
Philip Trevezas
10357 Brookshire Ave
Downey, CA 90241
 
THIRD OPTION
Tickets will be available at the door, assuming there is no sold out performances.
 
The Hellenic Library is a California Nonprofit Corporation and your donation is tax deductible.

Lucas Thanos
studied Theatre, Music, Dance and Philosophy in Athens,  Rome and New York. He researched for many years the dance philosophy of Isadora Duncan, serving as adviser of her family as well as reviver and Artistic Director of the "Isadora Duncan Center for the Studies of Dance."

Besides being a composer and explorer of Contemporary Choreography, Thanos is also a persistent scholar of Ancient Greek Tragedy. In the last few years, he has devoted himself to the study of Aeschylus, rhythmic physical movement, Ancient tragic word, and the root of the collective experience. His work also explores symbolist hypothesis, psychoanalytic interpretation, and the anthropological dimension of Ancient texts.

Having considerable experience in dance and theatre, he relied on his musical and dance praxis in his quest to decipher and analyze in depth the musicality and the internal rhythm of the dramatic poetry of Aeschylus.

By translating all of the Aeschylus' known plays to the contemporary Greek and English language, his focal point is to bring out the rhythm and the musicality of the great dramatist's word.
 
Aeshcylus' ORESTEIA - The Trilogy Synopsis
The Oresteia tells the story of the house of Atreus. The first play,
Agamemnon, portrays the victorious return of that king from the Trojan War and his murder by his wife, Clytemnestra, and her lover, Aegisthus. At the play s end Clytemnestra and her lover rule Argos.

The second play details the revenge of Agamemnon's daughter Electra and his son, Orestes. The siblings together invoke the aid of the dead Agamemnon in their plans. Orestes slays Aegisthus and his mother and flees, guilt-wracked, maddened, and pursued by the female incarnations of his mother's curse, the Furies (Erinyes).

The third play, Eumenides, opens at the shrine of Apollo at Delphi,
where Orestes has taken sanctuary from the Furies. At the command of the Delphic oracle, Orestes journeys to Athens to stand trial for his
matricide. There the goddess Athena organizes a trial with a jury of
citizens. The Furies are his accusers, Apollo his advocate. The jury is evenly divided in its vote, and Athena casts the tie-breaking vote for
Orestes' acquittal. The Furies then turn their vengeful resentment
against the city itself.

The work has extraordinary, sustained dramatic and poetic power.
Particularly notable are the fascinating richness of Clytemnestra' s deceitful words and the striking choral songs, which raise in metaphorical and often enigmatic terms the major themes of theology,
politics, and blood relationships that are elaborated throughout the trilogy.

AESCHYLUS' ORESTEIA  

 
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Alexia Vassiliou with Anastasios Papapostolou, Alexis Georgoulis, Patricia Kara and friends at LAGFF 2012
Photograph by Maria Martin


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We are grateful to Consul General of Cyprus Andreas Kyprianides for his continued support and tireless efforts to promote Hellenism.

 

Special thanks go to ELMA, an organization dedicated to the promotion of European Cinema in America.

 

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We acknowledge the following distinguished individuals for their love of the arts and culture, and for their precious contribution to LAGFF:

 

Marianne & Dean Metropoulos, Kelly Vlahakis-Hanks, Tina & George Kolovos, Stella & Dinos Andrianos, Sid Ganis, Corinna Tsopei Fields, Kary Antholis, Michael Galanakis, Olympia Dukakis, and Aris Anagnos.


We wish to express our gratitude to Consul General of Greece, Elisabeth Fotiadou, for her vision, dedication and fervent support.    
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